Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1887-09-01

The stock of Merchant sc in the NJ J.
Gr.enbnrg store is being offered to the public
by l X dawson. mortgage. at reduced rates
Now is your chance for bargains.
The public schools of this city commence
I on Monday next. Sept 5th, with the follow.
ing corps of teachers Mrs. L. A. Waylani,
primary department Miss Sophia Cowen,
intermediate department Miss Lizzie Cor.
nellus. grammar department; Prof L. NJ
johnson. high school department. 1t is ex-
pected that more scholars will be enrolled
during the coming school year than was ev.
err enrolled before. and we have reason to be.
lieve that the corps of professors chosen will
give the best Of satisfaction. We are in.
formed by the board that owing to some
changes that will be made at the opening
this wear. parents will greatly benefit their
children Of all grades if they will have them
in their places early on Monday morning
FROM WARRENs. A Benson and Martin
Collins returned n Sunday last from War
rens camp MIR. Collins who has been in
the camp during the past seven years in the
employ of Benson 4 Hexter in their store.
has come out to remain. MIR. Benson in-
f"rms MS that the white people of that camp
have been more successful the past year than
they have been for number of years. and
that everybody has good filth in the old
camp yet All the quartz mines that have
been developed have paid handsomely. Good
reports come in from the = lton district.
situated hirty miles southeast Of Warrens
and a wagon road will soon he under con.
struction from the Weser valley to this dis.
trict-via Varrens--at an early date. The
cost estimated by DR.. Merrill, formerly of
Orc Elmo but now Of Phillpsburg Montana.
for the building of this road will be upwards
Of $500, 900. The lodges now being worked
| in Warrens camp are the Little Giant and
Hawkcye by Riebolit 4 Co., the W. B..
Knott by N. b. Wiley. and the Llddle j.
liarpster. near Florence by 5. 5. Fenn 4
Co. Mr.. Benson will return again to the
camp about the first of October.
In the haheus corpus case before Judge
Buck to determine the legality of holding
Small, Colby and lapln to await the action
of the U. $. grand jury upon charge Of
unlawful timber cutting on public lands
the judge rendered his decision yesterday
Three of the four points upon which the
petitions relied for discharge were hello
not to be well taken, viz: The sutfi
cheney of the complaint laId before the com
missioner. The jurisdiction of the commits
sloner to examine in o the charge he no
being the commissioner residing nearest to
the land tresspasse'l upon That the hurdeI
is upon the government to prove the minera
or non mineral character of the lind. Upni
the fourth aud last point raised, to.wit
That the land was within IA mineral distric
and that according to the act of congress
J June 3, 1878 the defendants were permit
ted to cut timber upon the land. the judg
accepted ex Secretary Tellers interpreta
tion Of the law IN 1882 as being in substan
, tiaI accord with the latest known rulings ,
secretary Lamar, aud lie .ided that the dc
PENDANTS had legal right to cut and remov
timber from the land for the purposes mer
toned in the act referred to and heoe OF
$ 'iered their discharge from custody. TIL
, decision is quite elaborate, covering sixtee
: pages of lega; cap, and evinces much car
and forethonght on the part of the Judge
mailing up his findings upon the issues il
volved. As a paper emanating from the iud
cial head Of our district legal dispensator,
. this decision may he destined !" cut an in
rortant figure in the adjudication of que'
tons arising under the public land syste,
3. of the government.